When in love and out of love we see the world as 'innocent' what do we mean? This can only mean that within the transcendence which is love, in which we do not enter into the struggle for power, to be right, to win, to acquire, etc., the hopeless ignorance of mankind shows itself. This vision is what Jesus saw and what he meant when he said, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."
It was a plea of compassion for the condition of mankind. We are not in control and the entire drama is quite sad, if not tragic, that we act with such arrogance and self-assuredness, yet are quietly desperate, in the dark and at the mercy of an overdetermined world. All that is left is forgiveness and transcendence while beholding the blessed beauty of it all.
Is not the "action" of the likes of Ramana Maharshi, who sat in satsang on his couch in southern India and walked the hills of Arunachala far more the answer to it all than all the intellectual, political and military aggression that presumes to act but reactively regresses behind the growing wall of ignorance.
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